Post by @raster@retro-gaiden.com
I'm using xfce from ages (reminds me the early times of Win95 and Amiga), but I looking back to LXDE from a while that I used sometimes in the past. Pretty nice that it haven't changed at all in ages, and remains the most reactive than everything else. :P
But I think I should pick back Compiz-Fusion and look to customize it, most of the FOSS applications comes with their interface that talking of integration, in these system, is a bit far fetch.
@raster LXDE has more or less being abandoned over 13 years ago in favour of LXQt (i.e., using Qt instead of GTK). The last release was in 2021and it is still GTK 2 based, whilst Xfce and Mate are GTK 3 based and in progress of starting to adopt GTK 4.
BTW, LXQt was created because of Hong Jen Yee's dissatisfaction with GTK 3.
I guess the AI that made the video had a case of severe knowledge cutoff. 🤣
@DP0 LXQT seems have a lot less talking around, but is surprising well polished that has little to envy to the big players, or just to XFCE that is a direct contender, while remaining more modular.
You can switch a lot easy compositor and supports both Wayland and X11, things that XFCE (and Mate if I'm not wrong) still struggle to do.
I'm not really used much in past for now, but I need something light for another machine that I'm set up that I'm going to take a chance to use a bit more.
@raster I installed it on my wife's laptop. She uses almost exclusively Qt-based apps and indeed LXQt does a very good job in keeping both frameworks (Qt and GTK) optically consistent. It was about time that Qt gets a lightweight desktop as well. Qt is a good framework and can be lightweight, too. For the moment my Xfce-Openbox hybrid serves me well. I like tinkering with my DEs and I don't have the time to do an LXQt deep-dive - maybe a project for the year's-end holiday season. 😅
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It's my goto desktop for a while now. Currently setting it up on an ancient Dell core2duo laptop running OpenBSD